RUSH: Howard Schultz. You know, this guy… This guy is really opening a bunch of sores in the Democrat Party. This guy is engendering as much hatred… I mean, he\u2019s on a par with me. He\u2019s on a par! They\u2019re close to hating Howard Schultz as much as they hate me. Howard Schultz is running as an independent. That\u2019s his first transgression, because everybody on the left knows that Howard Schultz is a Democrat. He\u2019s donated beaucoup, hundreds of thousands of dollars to left-wing candidates, Democrat causes.<\/p>\n
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But now he\u2019s running as an independent for probably strategic reasons, as well as he\u2019s got some problems what the Democrat Party\u2019s become and his main problem with what the Democrats has become — and I find it fascinating he\u2019s the only one to come out this way! It is really instructive to note that no matter how radical this party gets, not one Democrat anywhere stands up and asks them to rein it in.<\/p>\n
Whether it is killing of children after birth, or whether it\u2019s just rampant, runaway, give-everything-away-in-life spending, or any other form of the radical behaviors like 12 years before climate change wipes out humanity, nobody on the Democrat side is willing to stand up and point out some of this lunacy. Except Howard Schultz is. He\u2019s standing up and saying, “What is this Medicare for all in insurance companies?<\/p>\n
“This is absurd. We can\u2019t do that! It\u2019s literally absurd. It\u2019s not gonna happen. We can\u2019t do it, we can\u2019t afford it, and we ought not be telling people they can get it.” Well, the Democrats don\u2019t want to hear that. They already fear that him running as an independent is gonna elect whoever the Republicans nominate, Trump or anybody else, because it\u2019s gonna split the Democrat vote. Then the second and third reason they\u2019re mad at him is because he\u2019s not apologizing for being a billionaire. In fact, he\u2019s out acting like he\u2019s very proud of being a billionaire because of how he did it.<\/p>\n
He said he\u2019s a product of the American dream — and when you say that and you\u2019re on the Democrat side, you have just put a bull\u2019s-eye on your forehead and on your back. They hate this guy for this! The American dream is not something the Democrat Party believes in. The American dream is not something the Democrats want their voters to think is possible. Their whole existence is based on the fact that the American dream is nothing but a rigged game for white men, white privilege.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s who the American dream is for. Anybody else who thinks it\u2019s for them has been fooled and lied to, and the Democrats are gonna wipe that out. There is no American dream! You can\u2019t have anything in America anymore because the powers that be won\u2019t let you have it. That\u2019s why you need to elect Democrats to get some of these things, because giving them to you is the only way it\u2019s gonna happen, and the Democrats are the only people who are gonna give it away.<\/p>\n
Howard Schultz is just throwing up all over that, and he\u2019s claiming great pride in himself for having utilized the American dream to realize his success and his fortune. So there\u2019s a story here at PJMedia.com: “On Wednesday, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz shot down an attack from Sen. [Fauxcahontas] (Democrat-Massachusetts), who said that because he is a billionaire, he is out of touch with America.” Remember, she\u2019s the nutcase that runs around telling people, “You didn\u2019t build that!” People that started their own businesses and become independent successes.<\/p>\n
Obama picked up the refrain and it became almost an official Democrat Party mantra. “You didn\u2019t build that,” meaning whatever your business is. Like she\u2019d say to Howard Schultz, “You didn\u2019t build Starbucks! If it weren\u2019t for the government building sidewalks, and if it weren\u2019t for the government building streets, and if it weren\u2019t for the government building public transit, and if it weren\u2019t for the government, blah, blah, blah, you wouldn\u2019t have been able to be a success. You wouldn\u2019t have been able to open any stores.”<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a sick and perverted way of looking at things that he doesn\u2019t accept, but because he\u2019s… See, you know what else this proves? Why do they not go after Bill Gates? Why don\u2019t they go after Warren Buffett? Why don\u2019t they go after Jeff “Bozos”? There are a lot of billionaires out there, and a lot of them have more billions than Howard Schultz has. Well, you know why they don\u2019t go after them? Because those guys all apologize for being billionaires. Those guys all support, supposedly, higher taxes on the wealthy. Those guys have built grand estates that are walled off or moated off. You can\u2019t get to \u2019em.<\/p>\n
But nobody complains about it because they act guilty about it and they criticize themselves and they criticize their own. The Kennedys did. And so people give them a pass. The people with pitchforks, the peasants with pitchforks are not worried about Gates, they\u2019re not worried about Buffett or any of these other guys, Jeff Bezos. But when Howard Schultz comes out and says he\u2019s very proud to be a billionaire and he used the American dream to get there and then asks, \u201cIsn\u2019t that what this country is about? Isn\u2019t that what we\u2019re supposed to do?\u201d He\u2019s very proud of this.<\/p>\n
No, no, no, no, no. On the left you\u2019re not proud of being wealthy. Not publicly. You condemn it! You never offer to give it away. No, no, no. You never offer to give it back. You set up a big foundation where you\u2019re gonna save people from malaria with a bunch of mosquito nets or whatever else, like Gates does, but you don\u2019t ever really give it away. You just act like you want to give it away. You make a pledge to give it all away when you die. You tell the world my kids are not getting much of my fortune at all, just enough for 10 lifetimes, but they\u2019re not getting it all. “Oh, we love this guy. We love Gates. He\u2019s so like us. He\u2019s so one of us.” They\u2019re running a giant scam.<\/p>\n
But Howard Schultz doesn\u2019t want to phony it up. So Fauxcahontas attacks him. He says, “Senator Elizabeth Warren said some pretty sharp words about me. She referred to me as a billionaire out of touch with the American people.” And then he told his rags-to-riches story. Quick. Who did the song Rags to Riches? Anybody? Ring a bell? Tony Bennett. It was one of his early big hits and it\u2019s used in mob movies left and right. It fits.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Howard Schultz says: I grew up in Brooklyn, in Canarsie, in federally subsidized housing, the projects. When I was 7 years old, my father, who was a laborer, came home and had a serious accident. He was dismissed from his job. We lost our health insurance. I witnessed the fracturing of the American dream. I started with nothing. I made it in America because of the aspiration, the magnetism, the spirit of our country. I\u2019ve always believed in the promise of the country. What is the promise of the country? What is it, regardless of your station in life, the color of your skin, your gender, your sexual orientation, whatever it might be, that everyone should have a chance in America.<\/p>\n
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Those are fighting words in the Democrat Party, which should illustrate to you where the Democrat Party is. That makes him enemy number one in the Democrat Party, talking about great opportunities in America, what\u2019s possible. The Democrats don\u2019t want anybody thinking that way. They don\u2019t want a candidate talking that way and really meaning it. Because if you can do all that in America, guess who you don\u2019t need? You don\u2019t need Chuck Schumer, and you don\u2019t need Nancy Pelosi, and you don\u2019t need the Kennedy family, and you don\u2019t need any of these other Democrats. If you can do all that on your own, which is another reason why I say the Democrat Party has done more to destroy the human spirit in this country than any single institution or organization I can think of.<\/p>\n
As a political weapon, they have beat people down. They have constantly told people, “You can\u2019t succeed.” Be it African-Americans, be it women, be it Hispanics, their collection of minorities that make up their coalition, white privileged Americans have the deck stacked against you. You can\u2019t get anywhere. Nobody\u2019s gonna let you get anywhere. Then one of them comes along and starts telling everybody how he did it, he\u2019s got to be silenced. They\u2019ve got to shut him up.<\/p>\n
Rather than look at Howard Schultz and maybe say, “You know what? Maybe that ought to be the way we should \u2013\u201d They want to win the White House, right? They want to win it back from Trump. \u201cMaybe there\u2019s some of what Howard Schultz is talking about we should emulate.\u201d No, didn\u2019t even occur to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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